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Quotes About Destination

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
~ Dorothy Parker
What is life, anyway? A death sentence. The longest distance between two points.
~ Dorothy Parker
Marvin, he said, just get this elevator go up will you? We've got to get to Zarniwoop. Why? asked Marvin dolefully. I don't know, said Zaphod, but when I find him, he'd better have a very good reason for me wanting to see him.
~ Douglas Adams
This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be the perfect time to disembark.
~ Douglas Adams
People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.
~ Douglas Adams
Just says prepaid ticket for Mr. Dirk Gently to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to be collected. Were you not expecting to go to Albuquerque today, sir?" "I was expecting to end up somewhere I didn't expect, I just wasn't expecting it to be Albuquerque, that's all." "Sounds like it's an excellent destination for you, Mr. Gently. Enjoy your flight.
~ Douglas Adams
La historia de todas las civilizaciones importantes de la Galaxia tiende a pasar por tres etapas diferentes y reconocibles, las de Supervivencia, Indagación y Refinamiento, también conocidas por las fases del Cómo, del Por qué y del Dónde. »Por ejemplo, la primera fase se caracteriza por la pregunta: ¿Cómo podemos comer?; la segunda, por la pregunta: ¿Por qué comemos? y la tercera, por la pregunta: ¿Dónde vamos a almorzar?»
~ Douglas Adams
We instinctively wave to people on trains because trains are a metaphor for being alive: countless souls, trapped together, hurtling across the landscape, with a destination somewhere in the unseeable distance. Nobody ever waves at buses.
~ Douglas Coupland
The Israelites of Exodus were a people on the go, not a people who had yet arrived at their ultimate destination.
~ Douglas K. Stuart
The point of a cruise ship is the cruise itself. But an ocean liner's job is to transport people on a schedule. The
~ Douglas Preston
Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...
~ Agatha Christie
No, doctor, I'm going to London. If things happen anywhere, they happen in London.
~ Agatha Christie
He thought: Best of an island is once you get there—you can't go any farther … you've come to the end of things…. He knew, suddenly, that he didn't want to leave the island. VI
~ Agatha Christie
Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any further... you've got to the end of things.
~ Agatha Christie
General Macarthur looked out of the carriage window. The train was just coming into Exeter, where he had to change.
~ Agatha Christie
How many millions there are who don't want to go to Hell, but they don't want to get off the road to Hell.
~ Alan Cairns
We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." - Prentice Ritter
~ Alan Geoffrion
Try and hang on," said Dad. "Just a few more minutes… We're almost at the—" Bertie was sick.
~ Alan MacDonald
Just a few more minutes… We're almost at the—
~ Alan MacDonald
I will find my way I can go the distance I'll be there someday If I can be strong I know every mile will be worth my while I would go most anywhere to feel like I belong
~ Alan Menken
They drove for almost a quarter of an hour before
~ Alan Russell
There can be great value in imagining our hero at the end of the story. When we have confidence in our destination we are more inclined to put our hero in jeopardy.
~ Alan Watt
Watch out for pickpockets and gropers now," Adrana said, as if my words counted for nothing. "We'll go all the way along, then come out at Cat Gate.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I'd like to see Paris before I die... Philadelphia will do.
~ W. C. Fields